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Windows Server 2008 R2 is an operating system from Microsoft. It is an update of Windows Server 2008. Unlike Server 2003 R2, this R2 is a fully new Operating System. It is only available in 64-bit versions.

I inherited a server that was running a move request to a new mailbox database. Unfortunately the server died a horrible fiery death during this move request (some genius set up a RAID 1+0 array with ...

We have 2K8 R2 RDS server setup in our environment and i am facing a weird issue whenever connecting to another RDS2 server through my RDS1. The error says "The remote computer disconnected because of ...

I teach programming in Visual Studio. We want to run it on a terminal server. The problem is that whenever we compile our programs, the Windows refuses to start the created exe file. (I didn't even ...

I have windows server 2008 r2 on which I have hosted ftp site named "emagappftp" (path: c:\inetpub\ftproot) and under ftp site I have created one virtual directory as zodiacftp and have created same ...

I have a pesky software service that fails every few weeks. It has two components. Service A and Service B. Service B gets in a weird state and stops accepting connections from Service A. The only way ...

Let me start by saying I just have a conceptual knowledge of how the physical networking side of things work so please bear with me.
I have a few clients that subscribe to multiple multicast groups ...

I have had an issue on a few Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard servers recently where when doing a standard reboot, it will reboot into the WinRE recovery environment. Going to the console of the ...

I got a Win Server 2008 R2 on a VM. I think someone accidentally ejected the NIC card that is presented as a hot pluggable device. But I am trying to find proof of that in the windows event logs and I ...

I am a junior system IT administrator. We have Windows server 2008 R2 standard and 150 computers with Windows 7 professional (32 bit). We have installed an Active Directory domain on the server and we ...

I need to add some .mp4 videos to a course in my LMS (Moodle) on a Windows 2008 R2 server. I'm using IIS 7.5 as the web server. While searching the www for the correct way to do it I've found several ...

We have two web servers that call the SSRS service to query the reports held there. Both servers are set up identically but while one works the other returns a 401 unauthorised exception when trying ...

Is it possible to set the Performance Settings for example
Smooth edges of screen fonts
globally or do I have to log in to every user and set it manually?
I couldn't find any setting in the GPOs that ...

I'm trying to convert a fully patched, Windows Server2008 R2 system disk into a VHD by using disk2vhd from Microsoft Sysinternals.
Every time, the conversion fails with error during copy. The error ...

I have a path rule that denies extracting executable to temp folder in the software restriction policy.
Now I need to allow certain applications that should run and extract their contents in the Temp ...

I'm using the built in SCSM cmdlets and the SMlets powershell module. I'm able to query Service Requests, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the Affected User of a given Service Request. I'm ...

I am having trouble with 2 servers, both with the same symptoms. When they are reconnected to the switch after losing connectivity, they stay in an "unidentified network" state. Only after cycling the ...

I am working on some release automation scripts that use Powershell to update existing scheduled tasks which execute various applications. In my script, I can set the Path and Working Directory of the ...

I have an AD environment with Windows 2008R2 Server where a few Windows 7 machines use FolderRedirection . Sometimes I need to re-initiate the homefolder creation process, but the only way I've found ...

Is there a way to inject IP address and do network configuration of a CentOS VM running on Windows server 2008?
In Win2k12 there is SetGuestNetworkAdapterConfiguration using which IP address can be ...

I have a cisco switch 4510R which is configured VLAN in this and connected to windows 2008 server. The problem here is when i run arp -a in windows 2008 server it shows IP address Different and shows ...

I'm baffled by this, as I can find no documentation on wether or not "Connect" or "Connection" is some kind of registered keyword for EventLog Sources.
I'm trying to create an EventLog Source called ...

At my workplace we whitelist executables using a "Run only specified Windows applications" group policy applied to the domain. At certain times we need to whitelist large number of executables at a ...

This should hopefully be a quick and easy one.
I have a remote site with no domain controller (no servers at all), connected back to HQ by a site-to-site VPN. Prompted by Netlogon Event 5807 (client ...